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Head  Quarters  Trans-Miss.  Dept. ) 
Shreveport,  La.,  June  1st,  1864.      ) 

TO  THE  CITIZENS 

OF  THE  TRANS-MISSISSIPPI  DEPARTMENT. 

I  have  deemed  it  my  duty  to  issue  a  General  Order,  directing 
the  purchase,  and,  if  necessary,  the  impressment  of  one  half 
the  Cotton  in  this  Department,  to  supply  the  pressing  wants  of 
our  armies  in  the  field. 

Your  soldiers  are  ihe  sole,  reliance  for  the  defence  of  the 
country  from  invasion  and  desolation.  They  have  recently 
furnished  you  a  signal  instance  of  their  willingness  and  ability 
to  defend  your  homes.  Without  munitions  of  war,  clothing 
and  medicines,  they  cannot  be  kept  in  the  field.  These  ar- 
ticles can  be  obtained  only  by  importation.  Cotton  is  the  sole 
means  of  purchase.  In  the  same  lofty  spirit  of  patriotism, 
which  leads  your  sons  and  brothers  to  offer  their  lives  for  your 
protection,  will  you  not  sell  to  the  Government  the  only  pro- 
duct, by  which  their  valor  can  be  made  effective  against  the 
public  enemy? 

The  impressment  of  Cotton  will  be  avoided,  if  possible.  But 
supplies  for  the  army  must  be  had.  It  is  left  with  you  to  deter- 
mine, whether,  for  the  preservation  of  your  homes,  you  will 
force  the  Government  to  resort  to  impressment! 

E.  KIRBY  SMITH, 

General  Commanding. 


Head  Quarters  Trans-]\^Ciss.  Dept.  ) 

Shreveport,  La.,  June  1st,  1864.      ) 

GENERAL  ORDERS  j 
No.  34.  i 

The   pressing  necessity  of  the  armies  in  the  field  make  it. 
absolutely  necessary  that  the  Government  should  use  one-half 


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of  the  Cotton  in  this  Etepartment,  for  the  purchase  of  naval 
and  military  stores,  reqflltcJPfor  tSe  defence  of  the  country. 

Discreet  and  proper  bonded  and  commissioned  officers  have 
been  selected,  who  will  purchase,  if  possible,  the  amount 
required. 

If  it  cannot  be  obtained  by  purchase,  they  are  authorized  to 
impress  it,  in  strict  accordance  with  the  terms  of  the  Impress- 
ment act  and  the  General  Orders,  issued  on  that  subject. 

District  Commanders  will  furnish  them  such  assistance  as 
may  be  needed,  in  executing  this  order. 

Any  attempt  at  illegal  impressment,  will  be  promptly  pun- 
ished, on  being  reported,  with  satisfactory  proof,  to  District  or 
Department  Head  Quarters. 

The  following  officers  are  charged  with  'the  execution  of 
this  order: 


Major  A.  S.  Cabell, 
Major  W.  P.  Baughn, 
Capt.  P.  J.  Lynch, 


Capt  B.  Shropshire, 
Capt.  W.  W.  Barrett, 
Capt.  N.  A.  Birge. 


All  Cotton  procured  by  them  in  Texas,  will  be  placed  under 
the  control  of  Lieut.-Col.  W.  I.  Hutchins,  who  will  use  it  sole- 
ly in  procuring  army  supplies. 

By  command  of 

General  E.  Kirby  Smith. 

S   S.  ANDERSON, 

Assistant  Adjutant  General 


SHItEVEPORT,  LA.,    JUNE    4,  1864. 


General  Order, 
\<>.  35. 


: 


I.  The  following  regulations  of  the  overland  trade  to  Mexico  arc 
published  for  the  information  of  all  concerned  : 

l  Sec,  1.  All  cotton,  tobacco,  military  or  naval  stores,  sugar,  molasses 
or  rice,  intended  for  exportation  overland  to  Mexico,  must  be  entered 
and  registered  with  the  Collector  of  Customs  at  one  of  the  established 
ports  of  entry,  and  receive  a  permit  from  him  after  payment  of  export 
duties. 

2d.  Such  permit  shall  only  be  granted  by  the  Collector  upon  the 
certificate  issued  by  a  bonded  and  commissioned  officer  of  the  Govern- 
ment, to  be  hereafter  designated,  and  stationed  at  San  Antonio,  Texas. 
Such  certificate  shall  be  issued  upon  the  affidavit  of  the  party  applying 
for  it,  accompanied  with  a  sworn  list  of  the  articles  to  be  exported, 
stating  the  point  of  exportation,  to  the  effect  that  the  articles  so  to  be 
exported  are  the  sole  and  exclusive  property  of  the  Confederate  States 
Government,  or  of  some  State  of  the  Confederacy,  and  are  to  be  ex- 
ported on  the  sole  account  of  said  Government  or  State,  and  that  no 
third  party  has  any  pecuniary  interest  therein,  except  for  freight  wa- 
ges, the  amount  of  which  shall  be  stated  in  said  affidavit,  which  said 
affidavit  and  list  shall  be  filed  and  preserved  among  the  records  of 
such  office,  and  a  duplicate  of  6aid  certificate  and  list  to  be  forwarded 
to  the  Collector  of  the  point  of  exportation  for  his  information. 

3d.  Any  person  violating  the  above  will  be  liable  to  the  penalties 
declared  by  law. 

4th.  All  persons  introducing  machinery  and  mechanical  and  agricul- 
tural implements  in  the  Confederate  States,  upou  making  proof  to  the 
officer  at  San  Antonio  by  the  certificate  of  the  Collector,  of  the  intro- 
duction of  the  machinery,  &c,  into  the  Confederate  States  or  its  arri- 
val at  the  port  of  entry,  that  officer  will  allow  a  sufficient  quantity  of 
cotton  to  pay  for  the  same  to  go  forward  to  the  port  of  entry. 

5th.  All  persons  to  whom  the  Government  has  furnished  any  of  the 
articles  named  in  the  first  section  of  these  regulations,  in  exchange  for 
army  supplies  already  delivered,  or  who  have  actually  delivered  to  the 
Government,  by  purchase  or  otherwise,  any  of  the  articles  above  named, 
will  be  allowed  a  permit  to  export  the  articles  so  furnished  by  the  Gov- 
ernment, in  exchange  for  army  supplies,  or  to  export  a  like  amount  of 
the  article  so  delivered  to  the  Government.  The  permit  of  the  Collec- 
tor to  be  based  upon  the  certificate  to  that  effect  of  the  bonded  and  com- 
missioned officer  at  San  Antonio,  which  said  certificate  shall  be  based 
upon  the  receipt  in  the  first  instance  of  a  bonded  and  commissioned  of- 
ficer, that  the   army  supplies    were  actually  delivered   ^  him  for    the 

to 


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Government,  and  in  the  other,  that  a  like  amount  of  the  article   to  be  ox- 
ported  had  actually  been  delivered  to  him,  also  for  the  Government. 

II.  The  Commanding  Officers  of  Districts  will  furnish,  on  appliea;  ion 
of  the  officer  at  San  Antonio,  and  the  Collector  of  the  different  Ports  of 
Entry,  such  mounted  force  as  may  be  necessary  to  ensure  a  compliance 
with  these  regulations. 

III.  The  Chief  of  the  Cotton  Bureau  for  the  Trans-Mississippi  De- 
partment is  charged  with  the  exportation  of  all  cotton  belonging  to  the 
Confederate  Government,  and  the  introduction  of  supplies  for  the  usa 
of  the  Department. 

IV.  Major  Asa  H.  Willie,  C.  S.,  P.  A.  C.  S.,  will  be  stationed  at 
.San  Antonio,  Texas,  and  charged  with  the  duties  prescribed  in  thw 
above  regulations. 

By  command  of 

General  E.  Kirby  Smith. 

•S.  S.  ANDERSON, 
Assistant  Adjutant  General. 


Tr«a*j»t  Aoknct,  Trans-Miss  ,Dki''t  j 
Houston,  June  0,  1861.        j 
Collectors  of  Customs  on  the  Rio  Grande  fron- 
tier will  be  gover  ned  by  the  regulations  estab- 
lished in  General  Orders,  Mo.  35. 

P.W.  GRA3T, 
jel0-6t  Ag't  Treasury,  T.M.D. 


Head  Quarters  Trans-Miss.  Dept. ) 
Shreveport,  La.,  June  5th,  1864.      ) 
GENERAL  ORDERS  j 

No.  36.  i 

I.  When  the  Deputy  Depositaries  do  not  reach  the  troops  of 
this  Department  in  time  to  enable  them  to  fund  the  Treasury 
notes,  all  Quartermasters,  acting  as  Paymasters,  are  directed 
to  receive  the  notes,  in  compliance  with  the  following  circular 
from  P.  W.  Gray,  Agent  Treasury  Department :  ?H  <x~  2g.  /$  {>, 
[Extract.]  ' 

"Instructions  to  Depositaries  and  Tax- Collectors. 

"I.  In  order  to  afford  facility  to  the  troops  in  the  field  for 
"  funding  Treasury  notes,  under  the  Currency  Act  of  February, 
11  1864,  it  is  directed  that  Brigade  or  Division  Quartermasters. 
"  acting  as  Paymasters  of  C.  S.  Army,  may,  under  orders  from 
"  the  Commanding  General,  receive  Treasury  notes  for  funding, 
"  from  the  troops,  and  certificates  for  four  per  cent.  Bond.*  will 

*  be  issued  by  any  Depositary  to  the  Paymaster,  for  delivery  to 
"  the  troops  from  whom  he  may  so  receive  deposits,  upon  his 
"  paying  oyer  the  money  received,  to  the  Depositary,  accom- 
"  panied  with  a  Report  specifying  the  names  of  depositors,  dates 
M  of  deposits  and  amounts  received  from  each.  In  such  cases, 
"  the  Depositary  will  issue  certificates  as  if  the  Paymaster  had 
"  acted  as  his  Deputy. 

"To  effect  this,  the  Paymaster  must  keep  and  return  to  the 
"  Depositary  a  numbered  Register  of  the  names  of  depositors. 
"  stating  Company  and  Regiment,  dates  of  deposit,  and  the 
"  amounts  deposited  by  each,  which  can  only  be  in  sums  of  $100 
"  or  its  multiple,  and  number  the  notes  received  from  each,  with 
"  the  corresponding  number  on  the  Register,  so  as  to  know  from 

*  whom  any  counterfeit  note  may  have  been  received." 

P.  W.  GRAY, 

Agent  Treasury, 

T.  M.  Dep't." 
By  command  of 

General  E.  Kirbv  Smith. 

S   S.  ANDERSON, 

Assistant  Adjutant  General. 


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